Dr. Anastasiia Grizel is a molecular biologist and research scientist at Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), specializing in protein aggregation, phase separation, and prion biology. She earned her Ph.D. in Biology (Biophysics) from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2012, where she studied the 3D structure of voltage-gated potassium channels using electron microscopy. From 2014 to 2021, she worked at Saint Petersburg State University in the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology, progressing from postdoctoral fellow to senior research scientist. Her research focused on prion-forming proteins, amyloid assembly, and the regulatory role of intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) in protein aggregation and inheritance. Dr. Grizel has completed international research internships at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Germany (supported by the DAAD Dmitrij Mendeleev Program) and at Georgia Tech in the United States. She has received research funding from the Dynasty (Zimin Foundation) and the Russian Science Foundation. Her current research explores how IDRs and amino acid composition influence the formation and properties of biomolecular condensates and amyloids - highly ordered protein aggregates associated with both neurodegenerative diseases and essential cellular functions. Using yeast as a model system, she aims to uncover general principles of protein self-organization and its role in cellular physiology.